Daily Telegraph January 9 1914

The murder of a boy on a train is the main story in the newspaper of 100 years
ago

This was another day on which crime dominated the news – the major story on the main news page (page 11) was the “startling tragedy” of a six-year-old boy whose strangled body was discovered on a train at Shoreditch station. Close to that was the tale of “a revolting murder” in Brussels.

A mock trial based upon Dickens’ The Mystery of Edwin Drood, which was reported the previous day, formed the subject of one of the two leaders, although as a letter on page 4 suggested, it was not to everyone’s taste.

Also in today’s paper

- A man who went for a 90-mile ride on train buffers is sentenced (page 4), but is luckier than the gentleman in a nearby article who died of heart failure after dashing for a train at Reigate

- The utility of bananas and tomatoes in winter is assessed - page 5

- The use of radium in treating cancer and a plea for the procuring of more of it is reported - page 9